Aging

Is an interesting thing.  I am by all accounts middle aged, and yet I feel as if I am just starting out.  I have a seven month old daughter.  I am looking at going back to school and starting a whole new career after 17 years in my old one. 

I am not one of those people that wakes up everyday thinking it's all brand new and I have a choice about how the day will be.  I hate those people.  I find most of them considerably vapid by comparison.

But of late, and perhaps it is because of my little Isadora and my beautiful and loving wife of two years, Emily, its seems as if every day brings a new adventure or challenge.  And they are good challenges.  Not like the stupid ones provided by my former job in corporate america.

Yes there are things that are a pain in the ass (like the water bill, the need to go get immunizations, trying to decide how to approach the latest recruiter that wants me to dive back in to corporate america, etc, etc).  But these are all rather trivial in the grand scheme of things.  And what will be will be.

Not that I am taking some laize-faire (yes I know I can't spell it, but you get the drift) attitude towards these things, or choosing not to deal with the challenges that the day offers, but it just isn't getting to me the way it used to and I think I am better for it.

In the end, it really doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks of how I go about my business, as long as I have Em and Isa, things are cool.